Originally Posted by JasonWhiteman
Wanted to chime in now that the gig is completed. Thanks again to all. The suggestions helped make sure that BIAB didn't "get in the way" of success per schedule and allowed me to craft a good show for an hour of dinner music playing straight except for breaks while the generated solos got their own turns.

I'm looking forward to getting more and more into the feature-set. Until next time!
Happy to help!

Originally Posted by Matt Finley
Two quick thoughts even if you are resolved:

First, are you still running BIAB 2019? Version 2024 dramatically improved the time required for file regeneration, something you mentioned.

Second, is your external USB drive a SSD? That would also help.
Both are great suggestions. 2024 is in fact a huge improvement in speed. Plus even an inexpensive SSD can be at least 10 times as fast as your average external hard drive.

In this situation I don't think it would help much, as the "network adapter" in the virtual machine is probably the main bottleneck. If possible, see if the VM software lets you change link speed - 1 gigabit should be what I'd consider "ok", but something like 2.5gbps or 10gbps might speed things up.

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